No Changes Have Taken In Our Life
A humorously tragic animation about a post-graduate job search amid the ennui of hometown culture.
45'
China
IFFR 2023
Baba is a six-year-old boy with an extraordinary gift. His home life, marred by an undercurrent of harm, provides little comfort. As a means to protect himself against a world he can’t understand, he teleports to tranquillity. A vividly layered story about the effects of abuse, its nuances, and the resilient power of childhood imagination.
– Fiona Armour
IFFR 2023
- 15'
- Kenya
- 2022
- Director
- Mbithi Masya
- Premiere
- Dutch Premiere
- Country of production
- Kenya
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- English, Swahili
- Producer
- Bramwel Iro
- Production Company
- LBx Africa
- Sales
- LBx Africa
- Screenplay
- Mbithi Masya
- Cinematography
- Robin Asselmeyer
- Editor
- Louiza Wanjiku
- Production Design
- Wanjiku Mbugua
- Sound Design
- CJ Mirra
- Music
- CJ Mirra
- Cast
- Malik Wandera, Victor Kamau Makgati, Faith Kibathi, Mbeki Mwalimu
Also in this combined programme
Sisters
A found footage road trip with two sisters who run wild before their paths diverge.
2'
Canada
IFFR 2023
SMRT Piece
A couple candidly converses about art while the filmmaker’s animated drawings parade on the screen.
5'
Singapore
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Mbithi Masya
- Premiere
- Dutch Premiere
- Country of production
- Kenya
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- English, Swahili
- Producer
- Bramwel Iro
- Production Company
- LBx Africa
- Sales
- LBx Africa
- Screenplay
- Mbithi Masya
- Cinematography
- Robin Asselmeyer
- Editor
- Louiza Wanjiku
- Production Design
- Wanjiku Mbugua
- Sound Design
- CJ Mirra
- Music
- CJ Mirra
- Cast
- Malik Wandera, Victor Kamau Makgati, Faith Kibathi, Mbeki Mwalimu
Programme IFFR 2023
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
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An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
3 Peonies
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023